#595 – Intellisense Shows Method Overloads

When you overload a method, you’re creating multiple methods with the same name, but a different number of parameters, or parameters of different types.  At compile-time, the compiler will automatically call the correct method.

Visual Studio can help with entering parameter values.  When you enter the name of a method, Intellisense shows you a list of available methods with that name.

Let’s say that we have three different versions of a Dog.Bark method.  After typing “Bark” and the opening parenthesis “(“, Intellisense will indicate that there are three versions of the method available and provide information about the first version.

At this point, you can press the up/down arrow keys to cycle through the three different methods.

Notice that Intellisense does the following:

• Indicates in bold the next parameter that you should enter
• Lists a description of the method, if one is available
• Provides a description of the next parameter